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Bulgakov is having what is called a “moment”. It’s a little late, coming 72
years after his death, and it can’t change the fact that his last years were
plagued by depression and censorship, and that he never saw the publication
of his satirical masterpiece The Master and Margarita. But even dead
authors know that a gift moment is not to be looked in the mouth.

Complicite — the theatre group revered for its literary adaptations —
is putting on a production of The Master and Margarita, the Russian
author’s final work, about the Devil’s arrival (with his enormous talking
black cat)